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Morning Hot Reads: Forging An Identity

SI.com examines MLS expansion club LAFC, which will become the league's 23rd team beginning next season. LAFC has "no coach and only one player under contract," but the club has "already begun to forge something of an identity." That is "vital" in the L.A. metro area of more than 13 million people and 10 additional major league teams.

The WASHINGTON TIMES profiles Seahawks DE Michael Bennett, who is part of the athlete generation that values "standing up" and "speaking out." Bennett is "far from your ordinary athlete." He puts his family and community "ahead of his industry." That makes "speaking out on conditions and current events only natural for him."

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